{"id":22157,"date":"2026-03-02T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/datacentre-developers-face-calls-to-disclose-effect-on-uks-net-emissions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:37:17","slug":"datacentre-developers-face-calls-to-disclose-effect-on-uks-net-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/datacentre-developers-face-calls-to-disclose-effect-on-uks-net-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK\u2019s net emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand<\/p>\n<p>Datacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase the UK\u2019s net greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns the sites could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/23\/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-ofgem-peak-demand\">double national electricity demand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign groups have written to the UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, warning that the energy required by new AI infrastructure poses a \u201cserious threat to efforts to decarbonise the electricity grid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/01\/datacentre-developers-energy-greenhouse-gas-emissions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3ca520ec064dff351f08653d3260f03280d11aaf\/521_0_4365_3494\/master\/4365.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c16bb5111fa56111ccc89a92f352b991\" title=\"Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK\u2019s net emissions\" \/>Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand<br \/>\nDatacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase the UK\u2019s net greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns the sites could double national electricity demand.<br \/>\nCampaign groups have written to the UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, warning that the energy required by new AI infrastructure poses a \u201cserious threat to efforts to decarbonise the electricity grid\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign groups write to technology secretary amid concerns that sites could double overall electricity demand Datacentre developers are facing pressure to reveal whether their projects will increase the UK\u2019s net greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns the sites could double national electricity demand. Campaign groups have written to the UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, warning that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/datacentre-developers-face-calls-to-disclose-effect-on-uks-net-emissions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Datacentre developers face calls to disclose effect on UK\u2019s net emissions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}